Little pallid cowry
Shell of Blasicrura pallidula from Philippines at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Cypraeoidea
Family:
Cypraeidae
Genus:
Blasicrura
Species:
B. pallidula
Binomial name
Blasicrura pallidula
(Gaskoin, 1849)
Synonyms
  • Cypraea pallidula (Gaskoin, 1849)
  • Cypraea quadrimaculata var. pallidula Gaskoin, 1849

Blasicrura pallidula, common name the little pallid cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Subspecies

  • Blasicrura pallidula luchuana Kuroda, 1960
  • Blasicrura pallidula pallidula (Gaskoin, 1849-a)
  • Blasicrura pallidula rhinoceros (Souverbie, 1865)
  • Blasicrura pallidula vivia Steadmand and Cotton, 1943

Description

Blasicrura pallidula has a shell reaching a size of 11 – 32 mm. It is oval, the dorsum surface is usually pale brown, while the base is white. In the living cowries the mantle has a blackish coloration.

Distribution

This species can be found in North Australia, Philippines, New Caledonia, Samoan Islands and rarely seen in the Maldives.

References

  • WoRMS
  • Biolib
  • "Blasicrura pallidula pallidula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  • Cypraea.eu


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